SAPPENFIELD, BERT REESE: 1912-

Bert Reese Sappenfield
was born in Indiana on Jan. 2, 1912, the son
of Alonzo Seth and Lena Miller Sappenfield. He
received the A.B. degree in 1935 from DePauw
University and the degrees of A.M. in 1938 and
Ph.D. in 1941 from New York University. On
Oct. 2, 1937, he married Louise
Pile and they had two children, Elizabeth Anne and
Mary Jean. Sappenfield worked for the Life
Office Management Association during 1939-40. Joining the faculty of the University of
Montana in 1941, he was chairman of the
psychology department, 1955-60. He served
in the U.S. Army Air Force, 1945-46, and is
a past president of both the Montana Psychological Association and the Rocky Mountain
Psychological Association.

Information from Who's Who in America.

Personality Dynamics; an Integrative Psychology of
Adjustment. New York, 1954.